Bio, Chem & Psych A Levels for Medicine?

Yes, they are fine for all medical schools except Cambridge.

I’ve just received my GCSE results and I received 9s in both chemistry and biology (and a 7 in maths and an 8 in physics). For A Levels I am planning to take chemistry, biology and psychology and am hoping to go into medicine. I was wondering if these are good enough A Level choices to do that. I could take physics instead of psychology (I don’t really want to though!) but I can’t take maths since I only got a 7. I was also wondering if that 7 would come back to bite me in the butt during applications for medicine. Does anyone have any knowledge/advice? Thanks!

Sorry if I am incorrect but did you mean Oxford? As Cambridge do not look at GCSEs.


Could you please tell us what the rest of your GCSEs were?

Cambridge requirements state that you need 3 A-levels out of maths, physics, chemistry or biology

As already mentioned by someone above, it would be great if you could post the rest of your gcse results. Unis don’t JUST look at score subjects for medicine, they’ll look at, say, your top 8 gcse subjects including the core English and maths usually, so it’s important if you’re considering applying to a uni that weighs gcses highly or has a certain minimum grade or score that you actually meet those requirements. Also, those A-Level subjects will be just fine for medicine (apart from Cambridge again as mentioned they want you to take physics or maths as the third A-Level). I did English language as my third and it did nothing to stop me getting into medicine this year. If you like psychology then it’s all the more likely you’re going to get a good grade in it, rather than taking physics because you feel pressured to choose it. Other than bio and chem, your third you should choose something you ENJOY. Saying that, if you’re considering applying to unis that require you to use the BMAT, you’ll have your work cut out for you trying to relearn both physics AND maths in preparation for the test, but that’s a far way off yet. Congratulations on your GCSE results btw, and if you have any other questions feel free to pm me 😄

I’ve just received my GCSE results and I received 9s in both chemistry and biology (and a 7 in maths and an 8 in physics). For A Levels I am planning to take chemistry, biology and psychology and am hoping to go into medicine. I was wondering if these are good enough A Level choices to do that. I could take physics instead of psychology (I don’t really want to though!) but I can’t take maths since I only got a 7. I was also wondering if that 7 would come back to bite me in the butt during applications for medicine. Does anyone have any knowledge/advice? Thanks!

Sorry if I am incorrect but did you mean Oxford? As Cambridge do not look at GCSEs.


Could you please tell us what the rest of your GCSEs were?

Hi! I'm doing the exact same subjects [congrats on the brilliant results by the way!] and the universities that I'm applying to [Russel Group Universities] all except this to get into medecine. Their are a few exceptions of course, but you can look them up on the specific universities website
Hope that helped!

english lit - 8
english language - 9
geography- 8
maths - 7
spanish - 7
religious studies - 9
astronomy - 8
physics - 8
biology - 9
chemistry - 9
thanks